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There Are 100 Computers Hiding in Your Car Right Now (You’re Riding a Data Center on Wheels) (www.carsandhorsepower.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Modern vehicles have evolved from mechanical machines into complex networks of processors, sensors, and code.

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[–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

Nope. We bought a pretty dumb car. Sadly only the "entry-models" have no shit in them. At least no cloud-shit. Android-auto to not be bound to abysmal onboard-systems that require subscriptions. And that's it.

I love tech from the depth of my heart. But in a car I want haptic buttons and dials and no 2m long touchscreens where I can only turn on the AC when I have reception 😁

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Your car probably has an electronics module (ECM) and a power train module (PCM) at the very least. But there's very few cars built in the last 3 decades that don't have at least two computers in them of some kind.

    Obviously that's not a "data center on wheels" but I hope this headline is hyperbole.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Yeah of course our car does not run on love and solar energy :) I totally don't worry about some tech, i worry about connected cars. Which only unavoidably leads to subscriptions for everything and tons of privacy problems.

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